Maraba had bought the units at 8290 Consumer Court in Sarasota County out of foreclosure from Stearns Bank for $697,700 in October 2011.

Investors large and small have been buying commercial properties at an increasing pace -- sometimes from lenders who seized the properties in the wake of the Great Recession -- in the hopes that firming and rising prices during the next several years will make them a profit.

<p><em>SARASOTA COUNTY</em> - A Bradenton company has bought 16 industrial condominium units on Porter Lake Drive for $810,000.</p><p>Reclinata LLC, a Bradenton company managed by Kerri and Rodger Dowdell, bought the units -- totaling 19,020 square feet -- at 2341 Porter Lake Drive from a subsidiary of Cadence Bank.</p><p>Industrial and office condos, a hot commodity during the real estate boom, have only slowly been moving back into vogue.</p><p>In December, Maraba LLC, a Sarasota company managed by Paul Marchese, sold 10 office condo units totaling 23,734 square feet to Twin Distribution LLC for $1.3 million.</p><p>Maraba had bought the units at 8290 Consumer Court in Sarasota County out of foreclosure from Stearns Bank for $697,700 in October 2011.</p><p>Investors large and small have been buying commercial properties at an increasing pace -- sometimes from lenders who seized the properties in the wake of the Great Recession -- in the hopes that firming and rising prices during the next several years will make them a profit.</p>